Donna FitzgeraldJust a few minutes ago I posted an entry about using Twitter at the PPM Summit in September. When I was checking that my links worked I realized that Twitter was down. Being an analyst by inclination and by job title I immediately went out to the web to find out where this was a recurring problem or just a one time glitch. It appears that there have been a number of DOS issues recently. Tracking this back got me to a site called Downrightnow which tracks the status on the more popular social networking sites. I then followed the appropriate links on reporting an outage only to find that they generally rely on Twitter to help them monitor user reported outages.
So here we have a completely free service (Twitter) that is rapidly becoming the backbone of applications and workstreams. I hate to say it but I’m thinking that at some time in the future we’re going to have a situation where the firms funding Twitter will want some financial renumeration for their investment and then we’ll all find out about TANSTAAFL really means.
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